# Quote — Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

> “As far as I have had opportunity of judging, it appears to be that the usual style of letter-writing among women is faultless, except in three particulars.”
>
> “And what are they?”
>
> “A general deficiency of subject, a total inattention to stops, and a very frequent ignorance of grammar.” p. 52, 2013

- Author: [Jane Austen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen.md)
- Book: [Northanger Abbey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/northanger-abbey.md)
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> A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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> But historians are not accountable for the difficulty of learning to read; and even you yourself, who do not altogether seem particularly friendly to very severe, very intense application, may perhaps be brought to acknowledge that it is very well worth while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it., p. 228, 2013

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